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rmnclmnt

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About rmnclmnt

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    Comment #49236393

    Time for Benjamin Malaussène to strike again!

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    Comment #48889333

    Oh nice! I’ll take a look at it, I was thinking of implementing such mecanism in Cooper (I don’t know where it’s going, exploring the possibilities and practical usefulness)

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    Comment #48888812

    In the past few weeks, experimenting with a custom ai agent running entirely in the browser with sandboxed tools exec. The core is built in Rust, a native CLI is built on top for l…

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    Comment #48870056

    > People do weird things when given sudden access to money or power. 10 years ago my last boss told me one last advice before going onto entrepreneur ventures: « be careful, people…

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    Comment #48697776

    Same been running Debian 13 Gnome on MBP 2015 13’. Works great, in a triple boot setting using OCLP For instance visio calls are unusable on Sequoia (OCLP) but rather smooth on Deb…

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    Comment #48441928

    Is this using the youtube per-channel RSS feeds? For people already using RSS feed readers, this is another way to achieve the same result (i do that with miniflux)

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    Comment #48352999

    For the past few months, many times i’ve tried this workflow: 1. Ask a coding agent to think and implement a feature that is non trivial 2. This leads to really understand pros and…

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    Comment #48232761

    Wow thanks TIL about the « add-bounds » config! Especially useful for project where pinning to exact dependencies is crucial and easily missed by less experienced devs (end product…

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    Comment #48059664

    Because a coding agent (when instructed well) will try to make a piece of code work in a loop. Static typing and compilation help in the process (no more undefined variables discov…

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    Comment #47872735

    Might be the best visual explainer of Shazam original audio fingerprinting algorithm from the 2003 paper (I guess they´ve switched to ML models at some point?)

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    Comment #47661961

    Agreed. Not saying there are no ways to ease the process but someone has to put some effort

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    Comment #47659707

    Agreed. But would mean having to educate people on security, privacy and computing in general… Pretty sure most government like having most people uneducated on such things

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    Comment #47658015

    > … said the company “does not use algorithmic wage-setting tools to make compensation decisions for our employees or to set new-hire salaries.” When the HR/CRM/ERP/whatever intern…

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    Comment #47647681

    Loved this book when I was a student! This is for DSP enclined audience with a focus on musical applications. Not very in-depth if you want to develop your own plugins or DAW but s…

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    Comment #47571136

    Isn’t this more of a Raycast issue (apparently an agentic ai service) instead of GH Copilot itself?

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    Comment #47561038

    Is this still a debate? It all depends on personal goal/wishes and constraints from your working contrxt (e.g company size, country of residence). Take France with medium to large …

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    Comment #47441611

    Thanks for the heads up! I have been out of this loop for quite a while, glad to see it's still there! Yes Monome was this initial inspiration then followed by many, but it was way…

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    Comment #47436069

    Novation Launchpad used to be exactly that: you send MIDI CC messages with proper values and you can light up the grid (with different colors). Did that a few years back, i guess t…

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    Comment #47350436

    Unrelated to the story but TIL AOL is still a thing in 2026!

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    Comment #47109525

    And maybe writing an article or a keynote slides is one of the few places we can still exerce some human creativity, especially when the core skills (programming) is almost complet…

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    Comment #47045632

    And that makes total sense. Honestly working since a few days with Opus 4.6, it really feels like a competent coworker, but need some explicit conventions to follow … exactly when …

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    Comment #47044316

    Yesterday while i was adding some nitpicks to a CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md file, I thought « this file could be renamed CONTRIBUTING.md and be done with it ». Maybe I’m wrong but sure fee…

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    Comment #46925965

    Yeah I got that but more often than not now the growl vocal technique is associated with extreme metal genre

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    Comment #46925476

    Yeah but at least that was funny!

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    Comment #46924365

    > Growl > > Famous examples: > Christina Aguilera, James Brown, Tina Turner I was not expecting these names!